Itzhak,
You are confusing the Family View screen which you can customise as you
have, with the Individual Information screen.
The Family View screen is just a display of your data.
The Individual Information screen is where you enter the data.
Note to enter Cause of Death you have to open the Notes icon and choose
the Medical tab. It doesn't have a data entry field on the Individual
Information screen.
Yes it takes more clicks or keyboard shortcuts to enter Occupation,
Residence and Immigration.
There can be multiple events for all of those taking them out of
Events/Facts wouldn't be particularly helpful to most people.
Where they are, you have a lot of control how they are used.
People do not have that control over the "vital events" of birth,
baptism/christening, death and buried.
For my research the christening and buried fields are as important as
the birth and death fields for earlier generations as they are the dates
that were recorded. I will never know the birth or death dates of many
people because they weren't recorded anywhere. I know that shows a
Western/Christian bias.
So I support the option to be able to define which birth
alternative/equivalent field is used so that people from other cultures
some use it.
Cathy
Itzhak Epstein wrote:
My individual information screen is already configured to show born,
died, residence, occupation, immigration.
Then, when I try to add a relative, I can easily baptize and bury
her/him. If I want to indicate immigration, occupation or residence
the event's entry screen can be found with a click and few additional
key strokes.
People are born and they die. Some are baptized and buried, but other
events may be more significant to the researcher or in her/his culture.
I still do not understand why cause of death was given such prominent
billing in the individual information screen.
Itzhak
At 12:20 PM 5/1/2017, you wrote:
On 01 May 2017 15:38, Bob Austen wrote:
Maybe I am missing your point…
You can change ‘Christened’ to another one of many choices, including
‘Occupation’.
By clicking on the ‘event title’ brings up a screen where you can
‘Customize Family View Information’. Then clicking on the box with the
three dots in it you can change the event to one of many.
I think that what Itzhak is talking about is on the Individual's
Information screen, where he wants the option of replacing the Born,
Chr/Bap, Died and Buried dates/locations with other events that are
more relevant to him and his research. Can't see it happening: people
are born, they live and die. What other Vital events can there be?
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Mike Fry (Jhb)
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